Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-12

spirits, mostly members of the self-same
armed sections that held the Greifs Hall
conclaye, went into close session at the
International headquarters in the Arbeiter
Zeitung building, where reports BY messenger
and telephone were received as the moments
sped.
Linggs crew of bomb-makers were still
assiduOusly at work. For some reason he
himself was unable to remain with them all
the time, and the evening found him cursing
their slow progress. Ii was some time after
80 p. M.---lhe hour mentioned for the
haymarket meeting TO begin--when Lingg
put into little trunk what bombs were
ready---some fifty or sixty--and started with
his burden for the appointed rendezvous, an
Anarchists saloon near by, known as Neff's
Hall 81 Clybourn avenue. He was met on
the way BY a messenger who had come to
hurry him along. The trunk was left open
in the passage-way of the saloon, and without
more ado men began dropping in quietly
alone or in couples,
PocKETISG A BoMB OR Two
each, and vanishing into the darkness
This celebrity may have somewhat Modified
Lingg, but his delay was not the only
stumbling block of the reds.
Twenty-Five thousand people, the An
archist leaders estimated, would be gathered
together in the haymarket. This moi
an extrayagant expectation. when IL 900 had
been easily massed near McCOrmick's
But fear of further rioting kept pretty much
every body at home except about 1000 men
nearly all of them Enthusiastically Anarchists
Undoubtedly the smallest of the crowd made
| the Anarchist leaders pause. The sOcia
revolution" backed by mob of workmer
25,000 strong had changed 10 a prospective
| fight between Anarchists alone on one side
and the police in force on the other. Ii wa,
evident TO the most casual spectator in the
| haymarket that a hitch existed somew here
and apparently the meetings managers wer,
all completely at sea.
/ The great dim-lghted square was de
cidedly uncanny scene with its scattered
groups of gesticulating, trampish-lookinl
occupants lining the sidewalks and pouring
| in and out of the rickety surrounding saloons
/ The Arbeiter Ieitung conference of leader
| had been prolonged one, and when at las
| Spies, Parsons. Fielden and the. rest reache,
the hsymarket square they seemed
BENT on WAITING GAME.
| It will probably never be known whether tn,
evident hesitancy was caused by the delay o
Lingg's confederates, a proposed abandon
ment of the outbreak, or the hope that thu
police would attack and attempt to dispers'
the dangerous-looking crowd before tn,
speaking should begin, thus relieving tn,
leaders from appearing to incite riot.
Finally, an hour and a half late, Spies
/ Parsons and Fieltlen addressed the crowd, il
the order named, using a wagon for thei
rostrum. The first two, in comparison will
/ their usual harangues, were tame pair -
doves. Gradually the crowd thinned out
| No police interfered, and the chance tn,
reds" had waited months for was nearl,
gone. The meeting would be a laughing
stock to the public, the leaders would be dis
credited by even their own elk, and
| TnE RrHE-SIGNAL
would mean not the social revolution be
| gun, but the International Association col
/ lapsed
/ Fielden was worthy the occasion He hat
been in the background on the wagon will
| Schnaubelt, the bomb-thrower, Spies anC
other directing minds, who saw plainly tina
something must be done, and quickly
Therefore when his turn came, Fielder
stepped boldly to the front, describing al
pretense of mildness. He electrified tn,
rabble at once. The crowd swayed excited
|
| shadowy confines of Desplaines street, int,
which they had come from the opera square
and pressed eagerly closer to the Pickering
gas-lamp that lighted the speakers shaggily
bearded face and powerful form. When he
tragicaly urged the wrought-up mob, stand
ing in plain view of the police station, tt
throttle and kill the law the disguised
officers in the crowd saw the necessity OF
PRoMpT AcTIoN,
and word was passed to their commander.
Captain Bontield, following the plain tli.
rections of the State law covering exactly
such cases, gave orders to have the meeting
dispersed. Seven companies of police, Ia
men, led by himself and Captain Ward
marched in platoons, extending from curb tc
curb. the short distance on DesplaineS street
from the station to the speakers wagon. A.
the police approached, Felden shouted to the
crowd: Here come the blood hounds
You do your duty, and I'll do mine" Cap
tain Ward, in a loud voice, called out: In
the name of the people of the State of Hi
nois, command you to peaceably dispense.
Fielden, stepping down from the wagon
gave the "ruhe" exclamation; I'VE are
peaceable." Instantly the bomb was thrown
the first in free America.
"A spulltTiliH spark vi lut AIT. on tIf ground
a binding burst---that was all. Blacknes.
was everywhere. The pigmy cracking of tn,
pistol-shots ont from the mob jammed side
walks, few tall forms in the street rapidly
closing together the flash and smoke of vol
ley after volley from them and the real
platoons, then the din became hideous with
the groanings of mangled men, and the yells
of rage and fear in the wild scramble for cs
cape,
The SEQTEL
has stretched out to to-day. Foremost it in.
cludes the death of seven bomb slain police
and the slow recovery of sixty officers wound
ed. The immediate arrest of all the chief
malefactors. barring Parsons alone, was fol
lowed by their prompt arralgnment for muir
der June 81, before Judge Joseph +. Gary
who proved himself as able as he is worthy
The escape of Schnaubelt. the actual throwcr
of the bomb who was set free before his inn
portance had been suspected. was a blunder
only equaed by the mistake on the opposite
side when Parsons made his sensational vol
untary surrender,
THE FIRST DAY IN CouRT.
Two months precisely was the length of the
trial, engrossing from day TO day the attention
of the civilized world. Whatever legal talent
could do was exhausted by the defense under
the direction of Captain Black. while State,
Attorney Grinnell directed the prosecution
with a skill reaching every point.
Death sentences for all but Neebe and the
penitentiary for him; the tour of American
cities by European Socialists, Liebknecht
the German parlamentarian, and Ayeling
the English scientist, in an attempt to give
prestige to the condemned and gain sympathy